After failed execution of Christa Pike, questions loom amid impossible US death penalty debate
Le Monde · 2 Oct 2026

After failed execution of Christa Pike, questions loom amid impossible US death penalty debate

The 50-year-old woman had been sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1995. After surviving two injections of barbiturates, she was transferred to intensive care Wednesday night at a hospital in Tennessee. The episode marks a dramatic failure of the US system of administering capital punishmen


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